In my perusal of the NYTimes this morning, I noticed an article about Hamburgers in France. I read the article and it was so interesting and amusing. In America, we don't really think of hamburgers being particularly interesting or gourmet food (well, that $5k burger in NYC aside...) and yet, here are the French, going crazy with the burger.
It reminded me of a few days ago, I was preparing for a housewarming party (Did I mention that I've changed apartments and changed my view on poverty and childrearing forever after my previous apartment experience?) and asked a friend from Nantes, France for a recipe for Galettes (Brittany style, not galettes du roi) and she pointed me to a French recipe site (seems similar to foodtv.com). In poking around after finding a sufficient galettes one, I found their guides to world cuisine. After looking through the scrumptious Indian and Italian recipes, I decided to venture forth into what they deemed "American cuisine." It was muffins and cookies and hamburgers! What an interesting thing to see American cuisine defined. I certainly don't have much to say when people from other countries ask to go to "an American restaurant" for dinner. What can I say? McDonald's? Applebee's? It's such an agglomeration of world cuisines that I never saw anything particularly "American" but to this French website, it is muffins and hamburgers.
Although I am a vegetarian and would reject all of the hamburgers, both French and American style, the French ones certainly sound more appetizing to me. Their toppings have inspired me for when I make my own veggie burgers to include some variations on the traditional blackbean ingredients.
p.s. the galettes were wonderful despite not being able to find buckwheat flour and making do with whole wheat flour.
0 comments:
Enregistrer un commentaire